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Dissolve: The Soft Power of Returning to Who You Truly Are

Jul 02, 2025
Of loosening the grip on what we were never meant to carry. Of washing away the residue of old identities so something more true can shine through.

 

Lately, one word keeps finding me.

It’s in the books I pick up.
In conversations.
In meditations.
Like a quiet whisper on repeat:

Dissolve.

I’ve heard it no less than a dozen times over the last two days, as if the universe is drawing a circle around something I’ve been too busy to see.

And when I finally stopped to listen, this mantra surfaced like a lifeline:

🌟 I dissolve what I was taught to be and I return to what I truly am. 🌟   (Thank you to @mymetaphysicalmaven for the inspo & synchro!)

Suddenly, the pressure eased. I stopped trying to transform and started letting myself return.


We Think Transformation Requires Force

We’re taught that growth is something we have to hustle toward.
That evolution means effort, and change must be earned through struggle.

But this word—dissolve—says otherwise.

It speaks of melting, releasing, softening.
Of loosening the grip on what we were never meant to carry.
Of washing away the residue of old identities so something more true can shine through.

To dissolve is not to be destroyed—it’s to become clear.


What If You Don’t Have to “Become” at All?

What if transformation isn’t about becoming something new, but shedding what isn’t you?
A deconstruction, not of the self, but of the stories layered on top of it.

Words like:

  • Melt

  • Release

  • Undo

  • Disband

  • Dismantle

  • Shed

They hold a different kind of power.
A sacred unraveling.
A way of returning—not with struggle, but with surrender.


A Different Kind of Alchemy

I think we often confuse intensity with truth.
But sometimes, the most powerful shift isn’t loud—it’s invisible.

Like a knot in the belly finally releasing.
Like tension draining from the shoulders.
Like permission arriving in the form of a single phrase:

🌟 I dissolve what I was taught to be.
🌟 I return to what I truly am.

Say it slowly. Let it ripple.

Feel how it doesn’t demand action.
It invites trust.


A Soft Practice to Come Home to Yourself

Close your eyes.
Place your hand on your heart.
Breathe deeply.

Ask yourself:

What feels rigid in me right now?
What could soften if I let it?
What am I clinging to that no longer feels alive?

Then, as you exhale, visualize that energy loosening, lifting, melting.

This is how the return begins.
Not with a grand gesture—
But with quiet willingness to let go.


This Is the New Way

Not force.
Not performance.
Not more doing.

But an inner unravelling. A quiet return.
A sacred dissolving of who the world told you to be, so your true self can re-emerge.

You don’t have to work harder to heal.
You don’t have to fight yourself into worthiness.

You can melt back into your truth.

And that?
That’s a revolution.


Try This

Mantra: I dissolve what I was taught to be. I return to what I truly am.
 

Journal Prompts:

  • Where do I feel hardened, rigid, or over-identified with an old role?

  • What fears come up when I imagine dissolving that role?

  • What would it feel like to live in softness, in trust?

🕯 Ritual: Light a candle. Imagine its heat gently melting away anything that no longer fits. Not in rupture—but in warmth. In devotion. In truth.


Let this be your season of un-becoming.
Of dissolving what was never truly yours.
Of coming home with ease.

Let it be enough.


 

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